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A Culture of Commitment - Leadership

By Herb Kelleher - HAT'S the secret to building a great organization? How do you sustain consistent growth, profits, and service in an industry that can literally change overnight? And how do you build a culture of commitment and performance when the notion of loyalty -- on the part of customers, employees, and employers -- seems like a quaint anachronism? I can answer basically in two words: be yourself. ^{Most Read} (Added: 20-Apr-2001 Hits: 4557 )

Aligning Action and Values -- Leadership

By Jim Collins - EXECUTIVES spend too much time drafting, wordsmithing, and redrafting vision statements, mission statements, values statements, purpose statements, aspiration statements, and so on. They spend nowhere near enough time trying to align their organizations with the values and visions already in place. (Added: 20-Apr-2001 Hits: 3221 )

Are Yiou A Green Thumb Leader?

By Eileen McDargh - From my home office, I can look out and see my garden. It's loaded with wonderful, terrible sights, sights that mirror much I find in many of our companies. You'd recognize it too... (Added: 24-Mar-2001 Hits: 1381 )

Can We Really Train Leadership?

By Jay Conger - Leadership programs offer everything from white-water rafting to encounter groups. But do they really train leaders? Yes, if they take a multi-tiered approach and recognize that it takes skill and time to succeed. (Added: 20-Apr-2001 Hits: 3397 )

Communicating with Credibility by Christine W. Zust - EmergingLeader.com

By Christine Zust - Credibility. How do you get it? More importantly, how do you keep it? Gaining credibility takes years to achieve, and maintaining it is a lifetime goal for any leader. One wrong move can erase in an instant many years of hard work. Communicating with credibility is an art form, one which you can master by using a few simple guidelines. (Added: 21-Apr-2001 Hits: 1413 )

Fight. Learn. L*E*A*D

By Richard Pascale - With bombs bursting in air, 4,000 soldiers do battle at the Army's National Training Center - the world's most powerful laboratory for leadership development and change. Five lessons from the front lines of learning. (Added: 25-Jan-2002 Hits: 749 )

From Control to Empowerment

By Russel Giles - In another article, I suggested that command-and-control management, like the manufacturing era, was gliding into decline (see Altering Employee Performance). The cause for this lies not only in the sea change in the nature of work itself and the tight talent market, but also in the inherent limitations of commanding and controlling anything. (Added: 1-Oct-2002 Hits: 524 )